SvennoJ said:
That's now, not at the time Playstation launched. |
The reduced sales of Nintendo consoles point towards the competition taking gamers away from Nintendo, not Sony bringing in entirely new audiences. As zorg1000 has already pointed out, the leap in sales during the PS1 generation we saw came from developing markets. The growth in Japan and North America can be attributed, for one, to increased disposable income resulting in the rise of multiconsole-ownership, and two, population growth.
The growth in Europe came from the EU taking shape with a united market that was introduced in 1993, doing away with borders and tariffs, therefore making all sorts of electronics a lot less costly for European customers. A major change like that takes a few years to trickle down and this coincides with a strong increase of PS1 sales as well as Gameboy sales. The catch is that we never talk about GB sales, because if we would, the whole PS1 myth begins to crumble. Additionally, the EU kept adding countries at a faster pace than before from the mid-1990s onwards.
There was a lot of outrage from PS gamers that adults wanted to play the Wii. If you missed all that, you've lived under a rock.
Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.
